Notre Shame may occasionally talk a good game on pro-life but it harbors on its board of trustees Chicago Demonrat Machine pro-aborts. I am waiting for your explanation of the shameful arrest of Fr. Weslin and other pro-lifers protesting Obozo's presence on the NS campus, much less his status as commencement speaker and his receipt of an honorary law degree.
I also eagerly await your rationalizations as to the retention of the execrable anti-Catholic "theologian" Fr. Richard McBrien as sometime Theology faculty chairthing and for nearly fifty years a professor on the theology faculty at Notre Shame.
Google Land 'o Lakes Conference and learn of the perfidy and dishonesty of the Notre Shame of the Hesburgh regime. If these creatures pretend to Catholicism, they are phonies and frauds and worse.
Thomas Jefferson's quotable cousin, John Randolph of Roanoke, once said: "I am a gentleman. I love liberty and I hate equality!"
In a similar vein: I am a Catholic. I love the Faith and I despise its internal enemies posing as though they were Catholic.
If that is hate, make the most of it. I am not some spaghetti-spined Kumbaya holding hands around the campfire and singing songs of compromise with and unwarranted "love" for these enemies of Catholicism. There are many here on FR who resolutely oppose Catholicism as various forms of fundamentalist or evangelical Christians. Unlike Notre Shame's disgraceful leaders, those other Christians are honest men and women expressing their sincere faith which they view as rooted in the Word of God. Hesburgh, Molloy, Jenkins, McBrien, et al., were and are fifth columnists and termites in the woodwork of the Faith.
Charitable contributions can be a nice thing or otherwise but they do not define Catholicism. John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan and many others have given colossal amounts to charity. Sometimes, as with Carnegie's contributions to free public libraries, they have achieved good. Often with such as the Ford Foundation, they have achieved much evil and often purposely so.
AND, I live in rural Northern Illinois (and previously in Connecticut near Yale). I carry no brief ordinarily for University of Alabama. It happens to be Notre Shame's next opponent and therefore worthy of encouragement. I don't believe that Bear Bryant, George Wallace or Frank Johnson were ever Catholic but they were better Catholics than the Judas trash that misruled and misrules Notre Shame under Hesburgh, Molloy and Jenkins. That would not be much of a challenge for anyone.
Go Bama! Rout the Faux Leprechauns! Touchdown, Jesus!!!
Go Irish! Beat Bama!
Go Irish! Beat Bama!